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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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Only 11% of Public SaaS Companies Sell Just to SMBs

SaaStr

SMB SaaS has a lot going for it: – Millions of them – Short sales cycles – Easier compete. But, it's often hard to get to $100m ARR selling just to SMBs. sell just to SMBs pic.twitter.com/Po1I2aMaBK. So many VCs and others have gotten more and more excited about SMB SaaS. Much higher.

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SaaS Billing Best Practices: 10+ Subscription Strategies for SaaS and Software Companies

FastSpring

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! We’d hate for that to happen to you.

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: ChartMogul’s Nick Franklin on navigating hypergrowth

Intercom, Inc.

Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Looking around at the market, Nick saw an appetite for content about growing a SaaS business. Tomasz Tunguz and David Skok – they were publishing a lot of content around SaaS metrics and these kinds of things.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. And I've worked in the service industry before, I know that those kinds of things matter. Dharmesh: The other one is broadly defined natural language processing in terms of.